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Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes in Barking in EssexAlastair Muir/Rex Features

Alex O’Connell

Last updated at 12:01AM, December 31 2013

The stage is a pressure-cooker space and artists are a temperamental lot, so we shouldn’t be surprised when performing artists succumb to the odd spat. Yet when Sheila Hancock and Keeley Hawes, who were starring together in the West End run of Barking in Essex, apparently fell out, theatregoers were left disappointed by Hawes’s unexpected early departure. “I have been utterly committed to the show to date and I would like to offer my most sincere apologies to those who have purchased a ticket to see me,” the actress said in a statement.